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Charles Thomas Ackley Civil War Diaries CollectionOne hundred and eighteen letters from Charles Thomas Ackley, mostly to his wife in Marble Rock, Iowa. Also included are newspaper clippings, brief biographies of some of the men in the Seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and historical commentary.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Allen Motor Company RecordsRecords of the oldest auto dealership in Iowa, including financial records, newsletters, and photographs.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

ATCA Artists' Works and Correspondence Files CollectionThis ATCA collection brings together mail art, correspondence, photographs, slides, compact discs, show announcements/posters, writings, and other ephemera related to or by various artists.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Carl Backman Chautauqua CollectionPhotographs, brochures, correspondence, financial papers, and brochures from several chautauquas.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Henry B. Bailey PapersPapers relating to the organization of the Young Republican League of Iowa in the First Congressional District, 1932-1935; records of Bailey's campaign for the office of Washington County attorney in 1932 and 1934; folder of letters dated 1945-1946 from Alfred E. Baldrige, Bailey's law partner, and his wife, Charlotte, during Baldrige's military service during World War II in Germany.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Batchelder Family PapersPapers of Reverend Joseph Mayo Batchelder and his wife. Included are about 50 letters, written in the 1840s and 1850s mostly from Peoria, Illinois and Owego, New York; an account book dated from 1848-1884; and a diary dated from 1847-1848. Manuscript sermons, and other items.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Miles Beaty LettersLetters written to Beaty's father, John Beaty, telling of experiences in the 149th Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Beecher Family PapersLetters to and from several members of the Beecher family including Henry Ward Beecher, Edward W. Beecher, and Catharine Esther Beecher.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Robert Blees PapersMotion picture and television script-writer and producer. Film treatments and screenplays written by Blees and other screenwriters, miscellaneous, memos and articles, film stills, photostats, phonographic recordings from soundtracks.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Edmund Blunden PapersCorrespondence and manuscripts of the British scholar and poet.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

James Wills Bollinger PapersLawyer and judge. Mostly concerns Bollinger's studies of Abraham Lincoln and as a collector of Lincolniana.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Josiah Bonney PapersSecretary of State of Iowa . Correspondence and photographs.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Thomas Eyre Booth PapersEditor and publisher of the Anamosa Eureka in Anamosa , Iowa . Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, a scrapbook, and other related papers.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Sudhindra Bose PapersUniversity of Iowa lecturer in political science, specializing in Oriental politics, 1921-1945.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Howard Bowen PapersNineteenth president of the University of Iowa, 1964-1969.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

John G. Bowman PapersNinth president of the University of Iowa, 1911-1914.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Duane Bradley PapersManuscripts and related materials for several of Mrs. Bradley's titles, including Electing a President (1963) and Sew It and Wear It (1966).Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Helen Branyan papersLetters From Egypt by Helen Baird Branyan consists primarily of Clarice Bloomfield's letters, written between 1920 and 1938. The letters describe the life of an Albia, Iowa, girl who became a missionary in Egypt.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Brown Gibson Family PapersLetters, documents, and a booklet on Major Hugh G. Brown.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

George W. Brown PapersMember of faculty, University of Iowa colleges of law and engineering. Transportation safety consultant.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Hazel E. Brown PapersWriter and friend of both Grant Wood and Marvin Cone. The collection contains research notes and manuscripts for the book, as well as clippings about Brown herself. Iowa Author Mss.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Raymond Bunge PapersUniversity of Iowa professor of urology, 1953-1976. His research in androgyny and infertility led him to work with Dr. James Bradbury in the world's first successful human pregnancy from frozen sperm.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Samuel Calvin PapersUniversity of Iowa professor of geology, and first head of that department. Instructor in paleontology, zoology, botany. Geologist for state of Iowa. Photographer of the Iowa City area.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Janine Canan PapersPoet and editor. Books, manuscripts,clippings, correspondence.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Millington F. Carpenter PapersProfessor of English at University High School, 1922-1950. Taught literature at University of Iowa, 1950-1964. Correspondence, course material, speeches.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Carr and Carr RecordsComplete records of a pioneer law firm and several of its predecessors, including correspondence, account books, ledgers, cases, journals, and receipts.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Gertrude M. Carr PapersNoted science fiction fan and fanzine editor from Seattle, Washington. Correspondence, together with some additional ephemera.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Chicago & Northwestern Railway Ticket Agent PapersRecords of the Cedar Rapids ticket agent for the railway, this collection consists of record books, correspondence with headquarters in Chicago , and correspondence dealing with problems of passenger transportation. Bulk dates are 1896-1899.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Childs Family LettersLetters of the Childsfamily in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania and members of the family in Clinton County , Iowa , including the towns of Low Moor, Lyons, and Camanche. Though the correspondence is carried on during the Civil War, the letters have mostly to do with domestic affairs.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Manuscripts of Chinese WritersA number of literary manuscripts composed by Chinese writers were acquired for the East Asian collections over a long period of time. In 1991, a program was established to encourage further and continued growth in this area.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Christisen Railroad CollectionRecords for the Milwaukee Road, Amtrak, and the B&O railroads, with some materials from the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern (EJ&E), the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), the Nickel Plate Railroad (NKP), and Acheson, Topeka and Santa Fe (AT&SF) lines from the 1880s to the early 1990s.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Philip Greeley Clapp PapersProfessor of music, University of Iowa, from 1919 until his death in 1953. Composer and symphony conductor. Compositions, correspondence, and scrapbooks containing newspaper articles.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Clark and Haddock PapersCorrespondence, account books, and docket books of the law firm of Clark & Haddock.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Dorothy Clark papersMethodist Episcopal deaconess who later worked with the Mahaska County Historical Society to found the Nelson Pioneer Farm in Oskaloosa, Iowa.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Buster Cleveland PapersCorrespondence and art work by mail artist Buster Cleveland.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Kenneth J. Cmiel PapersUniversity of Iowa professor of history and director of the UI Center for Human Rights.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Albert J. Cohen PapersAmerican motion picture and television script writer and producer. Program scripts, department materials, memos, clippings, notes, correspondence, production budgets, and miscellaneous photographs.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Confederate States of America DocumentsA collection of bills, acts, reports and other documents printed by the Confederate States of America government.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Paul Conlon United Nations Sanctions PapersDocuments supporting Dr. Conlon's United Nations Sanctions Management: A Case Study of the Iraq Sanctions Committee 1990-1994 (Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, Inc., 2001; ISBN 1-57105-059-0). Most relate to UN sanctions against Iraqfrom 1990 through the spring of 1995 with extensive materials dealing with UN sanctions against Yugoslaviain the same period plus items dealing with UN sanctions against Angola, Haitiand South Africa and relating to certain peacekeeping activities of the time.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Cook Family PapersDiaries of Edward E. Cook, journals and ledgers of the law firm of Cook & Dodge of Davenport, Iowa, and other business and legal papers.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

R. Keith Courtney PapersIowa City resident and artist. From the late 1970s to the late 1980s Courtney conducted a project titled Notes From All Over, which invited artists to send him found objects and printed matter. The collection consists of art works, correspondence, and related documentation dating from 1971-1995.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Crawford and Eastwood Families PapersCorrespondence, photographs, clippings, and genealogical records of these families, including materials relating to operating a farm near Prescott, Kansas; letters home from a worker on the Chautauqua circuit; and letters home from a professor of music.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Denton Chester Crowl PapersLecturer-portrayalist, salesman and editorial writer for the Toledo Blade, Denton Crowl performed on the Chautauqua circuits and in other venues. This collection includes correspondence, appointment diaries, photographs, and manuscripts, mostly relating to his lecture and political activities.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

John Culver PapersU.S. Congressman and Senator from Iowa.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Curtis Companies Inc. RecordsFounded in 1866 and dissolved in 1938, the Curtis Companies were a conglomerate of associated sash, door, and millwork companies that eventually consolidated into a single corporation. Includes correspondence, ledgers, journals, cashbooks, stockbooks, and minute books, with correspondence of U.S. Representative George M. Curtis.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Charles D. Cuttler PapersProfessor of art and art history. Consultant to National Endowment for the Humanities. Correspondence, administrative records.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Jay N. Darling PapersCorrespondence, speeches, articles, leaflets, clippings, scrapbooks and a sketchbook, mostly dealing with politics, conservation, or family affairs, assembled by newspaper cartoonist Ding Darling of The Des Moines Register. There are also some 6,000 original pen-and-ink cartoons drawn by Darling.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Marcellus Warner Darling PapersCivil War soldier, Congregational minister, and father of Jay Norwood Darling. Consists primarily of letters, a diary, and memoirs of his service in Company K, 154th New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Edward C. Eicher PapersLawyer, Government official, and U.S. Representative from Iowa. Correspondence, and speeches, including material on Iowa politics and government.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Otto Eisenschiml PapersChemist and Lincoln scholar. Manuscripts, notes, proofs, reviews of books on Lincoln's death and the Civil War, and the manuscript of Eisenschiml's autobiography.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Elbert Family PapersLegal papers, diplomas, certificates of appointments, scrapbook, 2 issues of Keosauqua, Iowa, newspapers (1852-58), and other papers.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Owen and Leone Elliott PapersCedar Rapids business people and collectors who donated their silver collection to the University of Iowa Museum of Art. This collection is made up of a series of correspondence and inventories of the Elliotts' library.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Polly Ely papersPeace and civil rights activist who was a longtime member of Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist in Cedar Rapids.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Paul Engle PapersPoet (numerous books from Worn Earth, 1932), editor of the O. Henry Prize Stories, 1954-1959, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1941-1967, and co-founder and director of the International Writers' Program, 1967-1976 at the University of Iowa. Literary manuscripts, correspondence, subject files, and student works documenting his career as a writer and teacher.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Eno Family PapersLetters about experiences in Penn Yan, New York and Fort Madison, Iowa.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Robert Espinosa PapersPhotocopies of articles on conservation and bookbinding.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Dina Rees Evans PapersHigh school educator in dramatic arts. Awarded first Ph.D. in dramatic arts from an American university, received from the University of Iowa in 1932.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Joseph E. Evans PapersEditorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal. Correspondence, clippings and photographs relating to his editorial work, his experience in World War II, and his days as a graduate student at the University of Iowa.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Alice French PapersOne of the most successful women writers of the later 19th century, Octave Thanet's stories and novels celebrated the status quo; she lived much of her life in Davenport, Iowa. Our holdings consist of a holograph draft of her story, The Governor's Prerogative, photographs, photocopies of other stories, and a microfilm of Voice of Nature.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Gawsworth (Armstrong)/Shiel/Redonda PapersPapers and manuscripts of the lyrical poet and second King of Redonda; some papers for M.P. Shiel, fantasy writer and first King of Redonda; some papers on the Kingdom of Redonda. Letters from Gawsworth's days as editor; many of his poems written in his hand, most of them unpublished. 21 notebooks and several photographs. These notebooks are mostly from the World War II era and document his experiences in the RAF in North Africa and Italy, as well as his literary musings and studies, including a list of authors in North Africa.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Virginia Harper papersOne of five African American women who integrated Currier Hall at the University of Iowa in 1946. Former president of the Fort Madison chapter of the NAACP.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Phyllis Harper-Bardach papersEducator of hearing-impaired children and retired professor of Education at the University of Iowa.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Claudine Harris papersHarris worked in radiation detection instrumentation. She was active in the Johnson County League of Women Voters and the Johnson County Alliance for the Mentally Ill.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Marie Tener Havel papersNurse who worked in Missouri in the 1930s and at the University of Iowa Hospitals from 1948 to 1965.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Joiner Family papersIowa family that corresponded during World War II.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Virginia Jones papersCommunity activitst and writer Virginia Shrauger Jones grew up in Atlantic Iowa and served as a Captain in the U. S. Marine Corps during World War II.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Jean Kern papersProfessor of English and an independent scholar who taught in the Middle East and Eastern Europe as well as in Iowa.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Lois Laughlin papersPapers of an activist from West Branch, Iowa, include correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to her husband's status as a conscientious objector.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Donald P. Lay PapersSpeeches, articles, and correspondence of a judge of the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

W.F. Main PapersBusinessman, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Business and personal correspondence, financial statements and reports, legal papers, memoranda, photographs, and keepsakes concerning Main family and its personal and business affairs.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Frank Malcolm LettersLetters to Malcolm's wife, describing experiences in Georgia and elsewhere with the 7th Regiment of Iowa infantry.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Willard Marsh PapersGraduate of the Writers' Workshop, a musician and an English professor.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Byron McClain LettersLetters to McClain's family in Wilton Junction, Iowa, telling of experiences in Tennessee with the 2nd Regiment of Iowa Cavalry.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Emlin McClain PapersLawyer, judge, and professor. Personal and business correspondence, diaries, and speeches on painting. Most of the material dates before 1880, while McClain was a law student at the University of Iowa.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Margaret McCollum papersDes Moines resident who was a leader in women's organizations including American Mother's Inc., PTA and AAUW.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

McDill Family PapersIowa farm family. Correspondence and business papers of Joseph Black McDill, George R. McDill, and John Ronald.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Julie McDonald PapersNewspaper Editor and writer, this collection contains material related to two novels (Amalie's Story, 1970 and Petra, 1978), a play (Eyes of Sky; a Play in Six Scenes) and a biography (Ruth Buxton Sayre: First Lady of the Farms, 1980).Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

McGill Family papersThe collection consists mainly of correspondence and includes the papers of early twentieth century labor activist, IWW member, and Buffalo school teacher, Pearl McGill.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Marshall McKusick PapersProfessor, University of Iowa Department of Sociology and Anthropology, from 1960 until 1996. State Archeologist from 1960 until 1975. Researched prehistoric Native American Indian cultures. Publications.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

John V. McMillin II PapersProject engineer and engineering manager, University of Iowa Measurement Research Center. Product development at the MRC, including standardized test sheet scoring, electronic ballots, and other applications of scanning technologies. Reports, patent applications, press releases, newspaper clippings, photographs, extensive annotations in finding aid by donor.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Marion Meade Woody Allen Research FilesResearch material for The Unruly Life of Woody Allen. Comprised of interviews by letter and on tape, journal articles, research files, notes, films, photographs, manuscript copies, and copies of the completed book in various editions.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Marjorie Medary PapersEditor and author of books for young adults. This collection drafts and other materials relating to Prairie Printer (a sequel to Buckeye Boy), about a pioneer northeast Iowa newspaperman; Orange Winter, about Florida in the 1870's; College in Crinoline and Prairie Anchorage, both of which have pioneer settings, and some other works.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Norman C. Meier PapersProfessor of psychology, University of Iowa, from 1923 until 1964. Designed tests to measure artistic aptitude, and audience response. Correspondence, photographs, lectures.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Cornelia Meigs PapersChildren's author and Iowa's first Newbery Award winner. This collection consists of a manuscript and various clippings. Iowa Author Mss.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Martin Mericle LettersPersonal letters describing Martin Mericle's Civil War experiences while serving with the 114th Ohio Infantry Regiment. Also includes and account book, 1863-1875.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Marianne Michael papersServed with her husband as missionaries for the Church of the Brethren in Garkida, Nigeria from 1948 to 1961.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Ellen Mowrer Miller papersCorrespondence of 19th century Iowa woman includes letters from brother in medical school and Civil War and from sister who raised a family and maintained a farm.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Frank Miller PapersEditorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register. 100 original drawings, cartoons with over-lays and color processes, engraving printing plates, correspondence, photos and other papers.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Dorothy Misbach papersEducator whose lifelong career of working with partially seeing and blind students began in 1938 at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachussetts.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Florinda Wakefield More papersCorrespondence from friends, family and her husband, the itinerant minister Thomas More.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Morrell Meat Packing Company Collection PapersBusiness and personal correspondence, account books, statements, and other records, relating to the meat packing company particularly in Liverpool, England, and Ottumwa, Iowa; and papers, including some of Thomas Dove Foster.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Lois Baker Muehl PapersManuscripts and correspondence related to her books for children including My Name Is-- (1959) and Hidden Year of Devlin Bates (1967).Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Kathy Ormond papersRed Cross recreation aide who was stationed in Vietnam from July 1968 to October 1969.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Ottumwa Railway & Light Company RecordsStreet railroad, electric light and steam power business in Ottumwa, Iowa. Maps, legal documents, correspondence, and subject files.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Viola Nesfield Owen papersMother and piano teacher living in Wisconsin, cooresponding with family in Waterloo, Iowa.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Betty Mae Page correspondenceWaterloo, Iowa resident who served on Governor Ray's Commission on the Status of Women.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Palmer/Calkins/Corbin PapersLetters, diaries, genealogies, papers, and videocassette dealing with the Civil War, the Mormon move west, and World War II.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Patricia J. Pardun papersState vice chair of the Republican Party in Iowa from 1967 to 1973.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Anne E. Pierce PapersProfessor of music. Head of music at S.U.I. Experimental Schools. Performance programs and correspondence.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Dante Pierce PapersFarm editor. Correspondence with State and National Political figures including Smith Brookhart, Calvin Coolidge, Robert LaFolette, Henry Wallace, and George Wilson.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Edwin Ford Piper CollectionPiper's notes on Western ballads, with music for some; other folk materials including rimes, riddles, games, folk sayings, quadrille calls, slang, superstitions, and folk remedies.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Elvira Gaston Platt papersTeacher and abolitionist who assisted fleeing slaves on the Underground Railroad while living in Fremont County, Iowa. Taught school to Pawnee children in Pennsylvania and Nebraska.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Cora Belle Pollock papersElementary school teacher from Rolfe, Iowa who later worked as a lab technician in Fort Dodge, Iowa.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Jean Cutler Prior papersGeologist who worked with the Iowa Geological Survey in Iowa City for 38 years.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Progressive Party RecordsCorrespondence, speeches, reports, business records, articles, campaign materials, fact sheets, form letters, directives, telegrams, pamphlets, press releases, clippings, and other related material concerning the party and the national election of 1948.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Dr. Mark Ranney PapersPhysician and book collector. Photographs, financial records, clippings and memorabilia.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Redpath Chautauqua Bureau RecordsCommercial lecture bureau and booking agency for Chautauqua and lyceums throughout the United States and parts of Canada. Office files of the Redpath-Vawter Bureau of Cedar Rapids, IA, the Redpath-Chicago Bureau run by Harry P. Harrison and Charles Horner's Redpath Chautauquas. Included are: talent files consisting of correspondence, contracts, publicity brochures, and advertising flyers; business files including employee records; geographical location files with materials about cities and towns that sponsored Chautauquas and lyceums; periodicals; daybooks, cashbooks; and photographs.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Olabelle Reed papersTeacher, community activist, and co-founder of Club Les Dames, an African American women's club in Waterloo.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Ted Rehder PapersFirst director of Dormitories and Dining Services, with related records, as well as family history in the German town of Lincoln, Iowa. Correspondence, photographs, ephemera.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Milton Monroe Reigelman: Collection on The MidlandCollector and scholar. Chiefly correspondence assembled in preparing his A Study of the Midland Magazine: 1915-1933 (1973) and The Midland: a Venture in Literary Regionalism (1975).Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Shirley Rich papersCasting director who worked for Rodgers and Hammerstein; founded Shirley Rich Casting in 1969.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

William A. Rohlf PapersManuscript of Dr. Rohlf's Good Morning, Doctor!, and related materials.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Erin Rollenhagen papersAmes middle-school student who helped organize a protest against sexist Hooters restaurant t-shirts being worn at her school. Her account of the incident and the subsequent public forum on free speech, dress code, and sexism was published in Seventeen magazine.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Earl F. Rose Papers on the Assassination of John F. KennedyMedical Examiner of Dallas County at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy, Rose performed the autopsies on Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. The reports and projector slides for these autopsies are here, as well as pathology slides for Ruby. Rose also kept clippings files on items related to the assassination, including a series on conspiracy theories. Clippings for other events of the latter half of the twentieth century such as Watergate and the Clinton impeachment are included here as well, as are photocopies of death certificates for some famous and infamous people, such as Nicole Brown Simpson and Bonnie Parker. Correspondence and personal papers form a portion of this collection, as well as a manuscript version of Dallas: My View of History, Rose's memoir of his time in Dallas.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

(Katherine) Eleanor Saltzman PapersIowa regional writer. This collection consists of manuscripts for Ever Tomorrow and Stuart's Hill, and her unpublished novel, Carpthorne; manuscripts and tear sheets of her short stories and poems; as well as correspondence, notes, and clippings. Iowa Author Mss.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

George J. Schaller PapersBanker and businessman. Legal, personal, and business papers, as well as correspondence and photographs.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Schapsmeier Collection on Henry A. WallaceCorrespondence with associates and friends of Henry A. Wallace in connection with the writing of a bibliography of Wallace by the Schapsmeiers.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Ruth Scharnau papersTeacher and community activist who was a founding member of the Dubuque National Organization for Women.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Hazelle Keir Schmuecker papersAutobiographical essays and family history of six generations by rural schoolteacher, homemaker, and artist.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Betty Rugen Schutter papersScrapbook and correspondence to her parents during her student years at the State University of Iowa.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Lucille Schwilck papers1939 graduate from the State University of Iowa College of Law who worked for the U. S. Department of the Interior between 1943 and 1964.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

John Hubert Scott PapersScott was the head of the Department of English at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for seven years beginning in 1908. He joined the faculty of the English department at the University of Iowa in 1915. The collection documents Scott's research theories regarding the connections between speech inflections and literary authorship, as well as his book collecting interests which focused on John Henry Ireland.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Helene Scriabine papersAuthor and Professor Emeritus of Russian at the University of Iowa, who emmigrated to the United States after surviving the siege of Leningrad in 1941.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Shambaugh Family PapersBenjamin Shambaugh (1871-1940) was a University of Iowa professor of political science and, for many years, superintendent of the State Historical Society of Iowa. He and his wife, Bertha (1870-1953), hosted many scholars' visits to the University.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

George Marion Shearer Civil War DiariesDiaries of a soldier in Company E, 17th Iowa Infantry, who was captured and imprisoned in Sumter Prison, 1864-65.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Virginia Tanner Simonsen papersCherokee, Iowa-born woman who enrolled at Iowa State College in home economics and later moved to Quimby, Iowa.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Augustus Sinning PapersPhysician. Correspondence, clippings, notebooks, and other papers.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed PapersCorrespondence, chiefly love letters, between amateur printers Smith and Turnepseed, together with a few additional materials, including copies of their co-edited Literary Newsette. Many of Smith's letters document his activities training as a navigator in the United States Army Air Force, 1943-1944.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Marcella Henley Smith papersMemoir, Confetti, of her life in Albia, Iowa, correspondence, and journals of books read since 1959.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Hartzell Spence PapersBorn in Clarion, Iowa, Spence graduated from the University of Iowa in 1930. From 1930 to 1941 he was the United Press bureau manager in Des Moines, and saw service during WW II in the Army Air Forces where he was the founder and first editor of Yank, the Army weekly newspaper. After the war, he worked as a free-lance writer, particularly noted for his reporting on religion. He also published several novels, wrote a comic strip (David Crane) and scripts for the weekly radio program, One Foot in Heaven, broadcast on the ABC network, 1944-1945. This collection consists of drafts for numerous articles and stories, including those for The Story of Religion in America, published in Look, 1957-1960.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

C. Pauline Spencer papersAn outstanding athlete and the first woman to receive an athletic letter at the University of Iowa.She graduated in 1923.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

D.C. Spriestersbach PapersFaculty, Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Iowa, 1940. Dean, Graduate College, 1965-1987. Interim University President, 1981-1982. Reports, memoranda, appointment books, scrapbooks, and correspondence, pertaining to a variety of University-related topics, including advancement of research, anti-war protest, and federal funding for public institutions.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

John Springer Printing Ephemera CollectionAdvertising agent, printer, and newspaper editor, of Iowa City, Iowa. Correspondence, clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, and other material relating to printing and advertising.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Carrie Stanley PapersUniversity of Iowa professor of English,1920-1954. Correspondence.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Wallace Stegner PapersAward-winning novelist, story writer, essayist, historian, English professor at Stanford, and frontline conservationist. Preliminary drafts and proofs for seven novels.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Del Stelck collection of Guy M. Gillette PapersResearch for a biography that was never published, this collection consists of papers from Gillette as well as Stelck's research materials.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Stewart Stern PapersAmerican motion picture and television screenwriter. Primarily material documenting his career, with research notebooks, rough dra s and final versions of many of his screen and teleplays, along with photographs from the productions. Also personal material including correspondence and his education and military records.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

John Loomis Stevens PapersLawyer and politician of Boone, Iowa. Correspondence relating primarily to Steven's political activities, particularly in 1912.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Daniel H. Talbot PapersAttorney and amateur naturalist. Photographs of Labrador and Texas.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Carrie V. Talcott papersActive clubwoman, Methodist, writer and farmer from Fayette County who spent 19 years in a retirement home in Fort Dodge.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Elizabeth "Bettye" Crawford Tate papersOwner and operator of the Tate Arms, a boarding house for African American male students at the University of Iowa during the 1940s and 1950s.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Clifford Thorne PapersAttorney, Iowa Railroad Commissioner and candidate for the U.S. Senate. Correspondence, speeches, notes and other material relating primarily to legal disputes involving transportation of agricultural products.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Janis Torrence-Laughlin papersMuscatine County Supervisor from 1976 to 1982 and Representative in the Iowa Legislature from 1983 to 1985.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Magdalena "Helen" Tylee papersA German war bride who came to Iowa in 1922. During World War II she ran the family farm while her husband was serving in the armed forces.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Warren Van Dine PapersConsists of audio recordings, biographical information, correspondence, and materials relating to Mr. Van Dine's editorial positions with Much Ado and Upward. Also included in this collection are several manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, and short stories as well as Mr. Van Dine's memories of his time spent as an undergraduate at the State University of Iowa in the 1920s. Photographs, speeches.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Marjorie Vandervelde papersPhotojournalist and writer who lived with Cuna Indians on the San Blas Islands to learn their culture and traditions.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Esther Ver Meer papersFarmwoman and member of the Porkettes, the women's auxiliary of the Iowa Pork Producers Council.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Victor Animatograph Corporation PapersAlexander Victor, a central figure in the invention and marketing of 16mm film equipment for home and industrial use, formed the Victor Animatograph Company of Davenport, Iowa. Papers include records, correspondence, catalogs and clippings, photographs, negatives and scrapbooks.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Anabeth Koob Voigts papersMaterials relate to the efforts of Voigts to obtain the release of her sister, Kathryn Koob, who was held hostage in Iran between 1979 and 1981.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

John Wagner LettersCorrespondence to his wife from Camp Strong describing his experiences in the Graybeard regiment.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Pamela Walker ManuscriptsTeacher and novelist. Author of Twyla (1973, 1976), a book for young adults. Three drafts, related correspondence.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Henry Wallace PapersFirst editor of Wallaces' Farmer. Arranged in broad subject categories and then in chronological order. Available on microfilm for use in repository, for interlibrary loan, and for purchase.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Henry A. Wallace PapersEditor of Wallaces' Farmer 1921-1933; Secretary of Agriculture, 1933-1940; Vice-President of the United States, 1941-1945; Secretary of Commerce, 1945-1946. Includes audio visual materials; clippings; an extensive collection of correspondence, including photocopies of the microfilm edition of the originals in the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division; government documents; personal papers; photographs; research materials, with an emphasis on agriculture, particularly corn, but including livestock, weather, strawberries, chickens, and gladioli; writings, and speeches.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Walling Family lettersOskaloosa family whose daughter Ivyl Walling Welton graduated from Grinnell College and moved to Tulsa, OklahomaRepository: Iowa Women's Archives

Esther J. Walls papersMason City, Iowa native and librarian who was the first African-American female student at University of Iowa elected to Phi Beta Kappa.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Walsh Construction Company RecordsThis small collection contains papers of the company started by Patrick T. Walsh. These are mostly photocopies and photostats, and include information on the Walsh Company, correspondence, and materials relating to their bid to build the Panama Canal.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Josiah Proctor Walton PapersHolograph forms and forms from the Smithsonian Institution and War Department. Also includes United States War Department, Office of the Chief Signal Officer's monthly summaries of voluntary observers' meteorological reports from various locations in Iowa.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

War Brides of World War II1995 honors thesis of University of Iowa undergraduate student, Rachel Casteel.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Myrle Olive Ward papersNative of Hamburg, Iowa and missionary to the West Indies and the Belgian Congo from 1925 until 1959.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

James Baird Weaver PapersPopulist leader. Weaver's correspondence with his wife; other Weaver family papers. Includes material on Davis Co., Iowa, and experiences in the Civil War.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Helen Lee Hensleigh Wenger papersUniversity of Iowa graduate and teacher whose papers include correspondence and scrapbook files relating to her work on a variety of social issues including gun control.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Marta Werner papersNative of Mexico who came to Fort Madison, Iowa in 1914. Her community activism centered on the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Lois Wescott papersGeology graduate of the University of Iowa who traveled to Japan and Venezuela to work for oil companies.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

West Lucas Women's Club (Johnson County, Iowa) recordsThe club initially met on the second Tuesday of the month for conversation, a program, and refreshments. Later, meetings were held bimonthly and were dedicated to study, roll call, a program, and refreshments.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives